Bloomberg strikes tougher tone on Occupy Wall Street (may "take action" against protesters)

New York Daily News ^ | Wednesday, November 2 2011 | Jonathan Lemire

[presidio9]

Mayor Bloomberg struck a tougher tone with the Occupy Wall Street protestors Wednesday - and said the city might be forced to "take actions" at Zuccotti Park.

Bloomberg said the city must listen to the residents and business owners near the protest site who are starting to loudly complain about the demonstrators.

"This isn't an occupation of Wall Street," Bloomberg told reporters. "It's an occupation of a growing, vibrant residential neighborhood in Lower Manhattan and it's really hurting small businesses and families."

Bloomberg's harsh assessment came a day after he received a letter from Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver, Rep. Jerrold Nadler and other local lawmakers demanding City Hall to crack down on quality-of-life violations at Zuccotti Park.

The mayor, who spoke after painting the New York City marathon finish line in Central Park, said the city is closely watching the situation at the protest site - and could step up its response.

"We are constantly monitoring the situation to preserve public safety and to guarantee the rights of all people in the city," Bloomberg said, "and no one should think that we won't take actions that we think are appropriate when we think they are appropriate."

The FDNY confiscated generators and fuel from the park last Friday, saying the flammable items posed a safety risk.

The Silver-led group complained about public urination, non-stop drumming and barricades along Broadway — and demanded the city step up its cleaning efforts.

Protestors have insisted the park is already clean and fear the safety concerns are a ruse to evict the demonstrators from their space. City Hall was non-committal Tuesday about increased enforcement.

The city and Brookfield Partners, the owner of the park, backed off a threat to do a full-scale scrubbing of the protest site last month.

Bloomberg, whose tone has become seemingly less sympathetic to the protestors as the occupation continues, said Tuesday the demonstrators should be blaming Congress — not Wall Street — for the nation's economic woes.

[miss marmelstein]

I thought it was Gerald “The Whale” Nadler who orginally told Bloomberg to back off from throwing the fleabaggers out of Zuccini Park.

[presidio9]

Click on the link to FReep the poll, which is currently running 60%-40% in favor of “time to go.” The NY Daily News is perhaps the most openly liberal major newspaper in the US.

[fwdude]

This was one of those supremely important opportunities which, once lost, is impossible to regain. It’s too late for Bloomers to do anything with the occucommunists because, in their mind, they now have a license to do whatever they want.

Suck it up, Bloomers.

[USS Alaska]

Bloomberg's harsh assessment came a day after he received a letter from Assembly Speaker Shelly Silver, Rep. Jerrold Nadler and other local lawmakers demanding City Hall to crack down on quality-of-life violations at Zuccotti Park.

Once the demonRAT political class starts getting beat up by their donors, and they begin to write letters, mikey bloomberg, mayor of hymietown {that's a jesse description of NY, his pal, fat al also refers to the business owners as the jew interlopers], begins to scurry like a pali bomber caught in between the barbed wire at the twin fences on the West Bank.

Bloomy will throw these stinky, skanky socialists under the billy clubs of his boys in blue.

I'm looking forward to 1968, Bill Daley style, batons and tear gas and broken bleeding bodies.

[The Iceman Cometh]

Zucotti Park, private property, being overrun by rats. Law enforcment and city hall does nothing. Shocking how people have lost faith in government /s.

[presidio9]

I worked across the street for years. The people who used that normally use that park are regular folks on their lunch break. The “1%-er% who work in that neighborhood mostly never set foot in Zucotti Park (which locals always referred to as Liberty Square). They eat at their desks, in their offices, or went out to restaurants. Now the poor schmucks from the mail room, the back offices, and administrative staff have to schlep their falaffel the better part of a mile around the WTC site to the World Financial Center if they want to eat outdoors on their lunch break.

[Oratam]

This way might be quicker.

[samtheman]

Should Mayor Bloomberg crack down on Occupy Wall Street?

Yes, they are a public nuisance and are becoming increasingly violent. It’s time to go. 75%

No, they have every right to stay as long as they abide by the park rules. 25%

[Tublecane]

“(may ‘take action’ against protesters)”

That action? Confiscating their salt.

[presidio9]

Make a note that he was able to confiscate their heaters on the night before a wet slushy non-stop snow storm, with temperatures in the 30’s, but if he tries to enforce a smoking ban he will have the riot he’s trying to avoid.

[Zathras]

Bloomberg tries “The Picard Maneuver”
“Stop, or I will talk at you again”

[justlurking]

We should stop calling this protest "Occupy Wall Street".

Obama has been using these to drum up sympathy for his cause, and it's time to make him own them.

Start calling them what they really are:

Obamaville

Spread the meme...

[miss marmelstein]

OK; just freeped it.

[Bitsy]

A mind is a terrible thing to waste.

[silverleaf]

Isn’t it a pity they are not occupying “public space” adjacent to one of Bloomies mansions

[MichaelCorleone]

It’s a bitch when your own leftist policies come back to bite you, eh Bloomie?

[Oatka]

I was bad, and voted “No”. Let ‘em stay around and become a such an inconvenience and embarrassment, that the next time a left-wing “grass roots” try a demo, they will be steamrollered. In the meantime, rub the “New Yawkers” noses in the mess they voted for (Bloomie).

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks presidio9. The partisan media shills on MSDNC's Morning Jackoffs had text on the screen (I was exercising with earbuds) for at least three minutes, saying that the must-read op-ed was NYTimes' latest shrill shilling for class warfare. Meanwhile, the past couple of days of the Post: